JAHIZ (

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• ABU

ABU 'UTHMAN 'AMR

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• IBN

IBN

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• BAHR

BAHR UL-JAHIZ; i.e. " the

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• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man the pupils of whose eyes are prominent ") (d. 869)  , Arabian writer . He spent his life and devoted himself in Basra chiefly to the study of polite literature . A Mu'tazilite in his religious beliefs, he developed a system of his own and founded a sect named after him . He was favoured by Ibn uz-Zaiyat, the vizier of the caliph Wathiq . His work, the Kitab ul-Bayan wat-Tabyin, a discursive treatise on rhetoric, has been published in two volumes at Cairo (1895) . The Kitab ul-Mahasin wal-Addad was edited by G. van Vloten as Le Livre des beautes et des antitheses (Leiden, 1898) ; the Kitab ul-Bu-hala . Le Livre des avares, ed. by the same (Leiden, 1900) ; two other smaller works, the Excellences of the Turks and the Superiority in Glory of the Blacks over the Whites, also prepared by the same . The Kitab ul-Ilayawan, or " Book of Animals," a philological and literary, not a scientific, work, was published at Cairo (1906) . (G . W .